A Structural Framework for GPCR Chemogenomics: What’s In a Residue Number?

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The recent surge of crystal structures of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), as well as comprehensive collections of sequence, structural, ligand bioactivity, and mutation data, has enabled the development of integrated chemogenomics workflows for this important target family. This chapter will focus on cross-family and cross-class studies of GPCRs that have pinpointed the need for, and the implementation of, a generic numbering scheme for referring to specific structural elements of GPCRs. Sequence- and structure-based numbering schemes for different receptor classes will be introduced and the remaining caveats will be discussed. The use of these numbering schemes has facilitated many chemogenomics studies such as consensus binding site definition, binding site comparison, ligand repurposing (e.g. for orphan receptors), sequence-based pharmacophore generation for homology modeling or virtual screening, and class-wide chemogenomics studies of GPCRs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMethods in Molecular Biology
Number of pages41
PublisherHumana Press
Publication date1 Jan 2018
Pages73-113
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
SeriesMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume1705
ISSN1064-3745

    Research areas

  • Chemogenomics, Crystal structures, Drug discovery, G protein-coupled receptors, GPCRs, Ligand repurposing, Mutations, Numbering schemes

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